January 03, 2010

For those who have patience...

I've decided to post 100 Facts About Me here, for those who want to know unconventional, average, funny or sad things about me... and for those who's got courage to read all this stuff up to the end ^___^
1. My compassion to people (and not only to my nears and dears) sometimes turns into a physical ailment.
2. I can’t have a good sleep within 7 or 8 hours. I feel brisk only after 10 hours of sleep – that’s my optimum.
3. I don’t like soft toys, statuettes and other knick-knackeries for shelves (irrelative of candles and candlesticks). I like things which combine beauty and practical use.
4. I’m an stationery freak, especially when it comes to drawing. ^_^
5. I don’t like pet names like “kitty”, “sweetie” and so on. But I like the word “sunny” when it’s said not hastily or casually (“hey look, sunny…”) but with real feeling.
6. I’m a philologist who masters a pen and fails managing her own tongue. ^_^
7. I don’t run to extremes. Though when I’m upset I eat too much or when I have fun I chatter loudly.
8. I don’t need frequent meetings with my friends. But that’s not a cause to blame me for my hard-heartedness…
9. I’m not friendly with making pastry. Perhaps someone has cast a spell on me. ^_^
10. I can never fill in a blank for a parcel without spoiling it. ^_^
11. Omissions in relationship are unacceptable for me. I stand for openness.
12. I can do one and the same task for a very long time but I can’t do several things at once otherwise I just fall ill.
13. I really hate boiled buckwheat.
14. Making me angry is impossible. Means I’m patient enough. But if I suddenly fly into a rage for an evident trifle then that was my “last straw”.
15. My natural condition is loneliness. Communication is anomaly for me though often it’s very pleasant.
16. I don’t like needlework, especially sewing, but I like things made with one’s own hands.
17. Seems like I can ponder over everyday trifles and world problems with equal concentration.
18. My first meeting with the sea (2005) set my soul in constant yearning for it.
19. Earlier in the morning I drank coffee as a rule (not strong, plus milk and 2 spoons of sugar). Also I eat a sandwich or biscuits. Now I eat flakes with milk and/or a banana and decided to refuse of coffee and sweets.
20. I’m ready to taste various kinds of tea. I love it! ^_^
21. Earlier I composed verses once a year or once a half of a year. Now life prompts me rhymes more frequently.
22. At school I was very quiet but in the yard I was a live wire and had fights (mainly with boys).
23. Japanese anime series “Sailormoon” which I saw in 2000 made me learn how to draw in manga style. I drew before but non-systematically. Besides, my passion for anime made me know various nice people with the same hobby.
24. Strange though since I make my hair grow I came to liking tending them. I never use metallic hair rollers or hot goffers, hairsprays and other inquisitional doings, and I almost never use hair-drier.
25. I’ve been keeping a diary since 1997. I began keeping a net diary (www.diary.ru/~Yumemi) in March 2006.
26. I adore books… but… sagas in many volumes are written for taunting a human nature. Especially if they are bletcherous...
27. After my 9th form I went to 10th and 11th form and then after finishing school I entered the philological faculty in the university (that was done against my parents’ will, they wanted me to enter a musical college after 9th form).
28. I’m very unforgiving and sometimes I can’t forget people who insulted me.
29. I seldom buy clothes. I should like a thing to buy it, but there are few of them, as I don’t like modern fashion.
30. I’m very sentimental.
31. More often than not I regret words that slipped out from my tongue. The thing is not lack of self-control but my abandon (my impulses sometimes come unexpectedly even for myself).
32. I can’t stand religious fanatics and militant atheists, especially if they try to impose their religious (antireligious) views on me.
33. I’ve got an allergy on people’s irresponsibility.
34. I do makeup as a part of office dress-code or for some festival. Rest of the time I prefer being without makeup.
35. I can’t break with people whom I joined hands with. If we have common past or good memories. Even if these people disappointed or offended me, even if we’ve become too different and somewhere deep inside I understand that I have had enough.
36. I was wearing skirts till 10th form and since then I constantly wear trousers or jeans. I’ve got only 3 dresses (2 of them were for my farewell parties at school and university). ^_^
37. I love lights of night town.
38. I can’t stand seeing trees that are sawn down. I don’t like receiving flowers as a present because it’s painful watching them die. As for house plants I’m indifferent to them.
39. I can’t easily change plans if something (someone) suddenly breaks my former plans.
40. When I was on my 2nd year at the university I did a male norm on broad jumps. That made me famous for a short time. ^_^
41. When I was 5 or 6 years old I acted as a boy. My hair was short, I wore trousers and a toy holster with a pistol and I gave myself boy names. ^_^ Sometimes I think years have not made me more womanlike… ^_^
42. I’ve got 2 alter egos (inner selves). They are female - Yumemi (soft-hearted, dreamy, a tender and caring girl) and Anael (strong-willed, serious and persistent, brave and independent one, such a warlike character ^_^).
43. One day I’ll start writing memoires. ^_^
44. I’m a writing lover in general. ^_^ I adore the process of writing, yes, when you move your pen on a piece of paper)))
45. I love travelling and new impressions but I wouldn’t like leaving my native town forever.
46. If I would make up my mind to leave my town I’d live in Sevastopol, near the sea. I love this city.
47. If I return home later than 10.00 pm then I probably faced some force majeur circumstances. :)
48. If a person who’s important to me needs something I’ll do my best to get it (to let it come true). I’m lazy for making something for myself. I need a stimulus like: “This person will be happy”.
49. Don’t come running to me with eyes wide open, shrieking: “It’s urgent!” Thoroughly explain what you need from me. Otherwise I’ll get excited too and I’ll make everything more than unsatisfactorily.
50. I love swing and once I start swinging I can do that till doomsday. (I read somewhere that inclination to swinging motion is a display of mental illness, so healthy people, stay away from me… otherwise I’ll strike you with my swing!^_^)

51. I don’t like calling neither by fixed nor by mobile phone. Exception is when I need to say something urgent and got no opportunity to type a message.
52. I like singing and dancing but not in somebody’s presence.
53. When I was about 2 years old I almost sank. Perhaps that’s why I’m afraid of great depth though I can hold myself aswim. I’m afraid of open places which are situated on a big height; planes; crowd; dark and/or small rooms.
54. A bit of numerals.
My favourite numerals are 6, 7, 9, 19 и 27; we’re 4 in the family and we’ve got 1 cat; I’ve been drawing for 10 years; my length of service is 4 years; my weight is 66, my height is 171; my MP3 player has 2 Gb memory; my water-colour set has 24 colours; there are always not less than 3 sharp pencils in my desk organizer, optimal movie duration is 1,5 hours; comfort temperature is +24; I’ve got 2 close friends.
55. I adore Friday evening, I’m happy when it's Saturday and I hate Sunday morning. ^_^
56. Since my childhood I’ve been keeping tender affection to boiled corn, pumpkin juice, croissants and iced pastry.
57. I believe in small omens and “talismans”.
58. I like air after thunderstorm, aroma of citrus, juniper, sandal, rosewood, watermelon, grapes, newly-baked bread… and many others which I can’t remember right now.
59. I like stuffing my computer with various cool, from my point of view, soft (I’ll install not more than one third of it) and then when I lose interest to it I start deleting it with the same enthusiasm. ^_^
60. I’m not willing to know how to drive. I even treat cars from an aesthetic point of view (typically female approach): I visually like them or not.
61. I hate beer. I feel sick even when I feel smell of vodka or brandy. I’m not against sweet domestic vine.
62. If you think that I drink you’re dreadfully mistaken. ^_^
63. I don’t smoke and I can’t stand anyone smoking by my side.
64. My favourite musical instruments are piano, saxophone, harp, violoncello, French horn, flute, tabla, guitar.
65. I’d like to learn how to play percussion instruments. I adore the magic sound of tabla. I like percussion instruments which should be played with palms (not with drumsticks or kinda).
66. Sometimes on Saturday morning I jump up with a horrible thought: “I overslept for work!” During the 1st minutes I can’t understand that it’s weekend. ^_^
67. If my hands feel cold then with time my whole body will feel frozen. That’s why when it’s cold I’m crazy about wearing warm gloves and mittens.
68. Conversations on scientific topics is the same to me as feeling depressed – both events whet a savage appetite. ^_^
69. I love Spanish, Japanese and Hindi and I hope someday speak these languages with ease. Nowadays Spanish is the closest to this dream.
70. “Clean” to me is “squeaky clean”. That’s why it was hard for me to get used to oily creams, hair balms and the likes.
71. Listening to nice music is one of the main things for pulling myself out of a severe depression.
72. I fall ill tremendously rarely but if I fall ill then the illness is serious.
73. In my early childhood I constantly mixed accents in words. Here is a future philologist! ^_^
74. I don’t like walking under the rain. I think rainy weather is good when you’re at home. There’s an exception – drizzling rain in summer, especially after a hot day. ^_^
75. I’ve got a linear perception of time. Don’t ask me what’s the start point – I don’t know. It’s like standing on a straight road and you can’t see both of its ends. The place where you’re standing is present time.
76. I don’t like sport as I quickly get tired but I feel delight cycling, or walking, or dancing.
77. Sometimes I’m so much lost in my thoughts that I hear things… ^_^ Once my mom said the phrase “My tongue is my enemy!” (in Russian – “Yazyk moy vrag moy! [yi’zykmoy ‘vrakmoy]”) and I’ve heard it like “visits of Brahma”. I asked her why she mentioned Brahma and caused a burst of laughter. ^_^
78. If I am to choose I’ll prefer a slow increasing of effort and not a flash spurt with using all my strength. It deals not only with sports but with many events in my life.
79. Apart from belles-lettres I like literature according to my interests. For example country-study books and well-illustrated guide books like “Thomas Cook”, or magazines like "GEO", "National Geographic". I guess there’s no need in my explanations why I like them... ^_^
80. Sometimes I look through fashion magazines but without great interest, coz I don’t follow fashion at all.
81. At times my new acquaintances think that my name is a shortened form of Veronica and even try to call me like that ^_^ Oh come on people, my full name is Vera. ^_^
82. I don’t like zoo. Seeing wild animals under lock and key is too much for me to bear.
83. I don’t like circus.
84. I adore fireworks (in the sky). But I try not to come near a crowd where something explodes… ^_^
85. I like perfume with notes of fresh flower and citrus or wood. I don’t like suffocating sweet, spicy, “eastern” aromas in perfume (such as ambergris, patchouli, musk, ginger, cinnamon, ylang-ylang, lily…)
86. I don’t like skating. There are some unpleasant memories.
87. I don’t like swimming pools.
88. I wear loose hair just because I can’t imagine what to do with them. ^_^ And because some hairdos which I visually like don’t suit me.
89. Frost is a hardship for me (I’ve got dry and sensible skin). And I easily get sunburnt in summer… that’s really annoying. ^_^'
90. I’m not afraid of routine, I always can find things to do and ways to have fun.
91. I’m almost indifferent to jewellery, precious metals and so on. Sometimes I wear some pendant to enliven my everyday sweater or polo-neck. I wear small silver earrings.
92. I’m not that inveterate bore I perhaps seem. ^_^ You can make me change my mind if you give me reasonable and forcible arguments. But don’t try to manipulate me, I’ll withdraw into myself at once.
93. My most horrible nightmare: I roam in the darkness in either unfinished or tumbledown building which has many stairs. I rather feel than hear someone following me, unhurriedly, menacingly. When I turn around I don’t see anyone. I don’t break into a panicky run, I just go further feeling the same presence behind me. Fortunately it’s not for long as I wake up.
94. My most fascinating dream: I see a light-haired boy who’s not more than 5 years old. I teach him how to draw houses and cars, or play with him, or walk with him. I know well that the little boy is my son (I haven’t got children by the way).
95. I’m a human dreaming of impossible things. No, really. I wish people stop torturing and killing each other.
96. I don’t consider myself a beauty. I just normally treat myself and I haven’t got particular pretensions to my appearance.
97. Starting from point 96 the best compliment for me is not “you’re looking great!”, but “I’m carried away by talking to you!”
98. I’m afraid of death, and I don’t care much if it’s slow or quick, painful or not – death is death. It doesn’t matter whether it’s death of my dears or people whom I’ve never known. And I hate humour concerned with death.
99. Another reason why I study languages… I try to pull threads of friendship all over the world. On second thoughts… if something happens… those threads won’t save anyone… but the comforting fact is that I’m not the only one in the world who does the same.
100. I've been waiting for my Knight for so long. Someone said it’s banal, naive and old-fashioned. But please go your way people. Because I've finally met him. ^____^

2 comments:

  1. You know i do not have even one fact to write about me.

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  2. That's not true Manish)) as you see I wrote here everything that came into my head)) nothing very special))

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